Mphasis management on company performance, growth outlook and more

“A lot of this is driven through everything we talked about in the last few quarters, the focus on in-account actions, extreme amount of focus on investing in relevant tech solutions, infusing a lot of tech and AI into these solutions to actually create a differentiation,” says Nitin Rakesh, CEO, Mphasis.Meanwhile, Manish Dugar, CFO, Mphasis … Read more

More than a third of US workers worried about AI taking over jobs: Survey

More than a third of U.S. workers are worried that artificial intelligence (AI) will result in them having their hours or salary slashed or losing their job entirely, two new surveys found. The surveys, conducted by YouGov, found that 36 percent of full-time and part-time workers are concerned that AI will take over their jobs. … Read more

Former DHS disinformation office chief joins nonprofit, calls out GOP lawmakers

Nina Jankowicz, the former Department of Homeland Security disinformation chief, has joined a nonprofit to combat disinformation ahead of the 2024 election and as artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. Jankowicz joined the American Sunlight Project and sent a letter to congressional leaders who have “done little to improve the health of our information … Read more

Civil advocacy groups press Big Tech on AI-fueled misinformation

More than 200 civil advocacy groups urged leading technology companies to increase efforts to combat misinformation fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of elections across the globe, in a letter published Tuesday. The groups wrote top executives for popular technology companies including Google, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and X, requesting “swift action” to reinforce their … Read more

To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light

GlobalFoundries, a company that makes chips for others, including AMD and General Motors, previously announced a partnership with Lightmatter. Harris says his company is “working with the largest semiconductor companies in the world as well as the hyperscalers,” referring to the largest cloud companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. If Lightmatter or another company can … Read more

AI: Dipesh Shah on how Samsung’s Bespoke AI can aid in daily life

Dipesh Shah, Head Samsung R&D, Samsung India, says “it is primarily a software driven innovation. The sensors and devices are the same. Now, we are doing signal processing on those sensors using AI in the backend through a secure Knox platform so that it brings in additional benefits to daily life. As long as we … Read more

Washington judge bans use of AI-enhanced video as trial evidence

A judge in Washington banned the use of videos enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) as evidence in the trial of a man who is accused of killing three people. The ruling, signed Friday by King County Superior Court Judge Leroy McCullough, may be the first-of-its-kind ruling in court as AI tech emerges. It was first … Read more

Arizona newsletter makes Kari Lake deep fake

The Arizona Agenda, a local newsletter covering state politics, made a deepfake of Kari Lake warning readers about the “terrifying new age” of artificial intelligence (AI) interference in elections. “Hi, I’m Kari Lake. Subscribe to the Arizona Agenda for hard-hitting, real news and a preview of the terrifying artificial intelligence coming your way in the … Read more

White House hails first UN AI resolution as ‘landmark achievement’

The White House applauded the newly approved United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence (AI) safety Thursday, calling it a “historic step” to ensuring “trustworthy” advancements in technology.  The U.N. General Assembly approved the resolution, proposed by the United States and co-sponsored by 123 other countries, senior administration officials told reporters Thursday. The proposal includes a … Read more

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid software engineers. Chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can generate code, but Devin went further, planning how to solve a problem, writing the code, and then … Read more